During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water!
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In medieval Italy, if a man was caught kissing a woman in public, he had to marry her whether he liked it or not.
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
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The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
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The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
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Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal, and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
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